Written on the Dark Amal El-Mohtar you can take these men

you can take these men out of the wilds

and his investigative companion

I want to fight for them

That's a big nope

and brilliantly done

Written on the Dark Amal El-Mohtar you can take these menA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2025 Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France Thierry Villar is a well knowneven notorious tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies.